Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Another Lawful Gun Owner Goes Berserk - South Dakota

An old grudge that spanned more than a half-century may have led a 73-year-old man to fatally shoot his long-ago classmate at his South Dakota home, according to a court affidavit filed Thursday.

Carl V. Ericsson, of Watertown, was denied bond Thursday during his first court appearance on a first-degree murder charge. The former high school sports star is accused of shooting retired Madison High School teacher and track coach Norman Johnson, 72, after Johnson answered the door at his house on Tuesday evening in Madison.

I guess this story could also argue for the PERMANENT loss of gun rights. Some unfit gun owners NEVER stop being a danger to themselves and others.

If the shooter is convicted, and that's likely, he certainly will lose his gun rights. He's also likely to die in prison. But as Not My Real Name observed, how would you have identified him as a problem before this? You say that some gun owners are unfit, but your solution is to take guns away from all gun owners.

Mikeb, we're not stupid, despite what your side keeps saying. I look at all the proposed regulations and restrictions here, and what I see, if completely enacted, would make legal gun ownership so difficult that hardly anyone would qualify. Hardly anyone would have the time or the money to go through the whole process. So while you claim that you don't want to ban private ownership, and while you claim that your proposals would only cut legal ownership in half, the practical effect of what you want would make the number of legal gun owners almost zero.